About
Sebastian Kwiatek

Biography

1976 born in Stolp/Slupsk (Poland). Growing up in Oberhessen at Marburg a.d. Lahn and Bremen.

Works and lives in Munich (Bavaria).

“I find it difficult to write about my own works, sometimes even lying or impossible. As a photographer, one is arrested for the visual. As a visual artist, what others discover for themselves in his work, what they make of it.

My focus is, according to many comments and conversations with tumblr and 500px users, in my monochrome street scenes from the different districts of Munich. These are often associated with big names such as Robert Doisneau and Edward Hopper, which I personally enjoy. What could be meant is the oscillation of my work between social documentation and magical realism. The former should be clear. (…)”